Palin says Obama's policies have U.S. on road to ruin

Reuters ^ | Feb 5, 2011 | John Whitesides

[Jet Jaguar]

Republican Sarah Palin said on Friday an explosion of government spending and debt under President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats had put the United States on "the road to ruin."

In a tribute to former President Ronald Reagan, the potential 2012 White House contender said leaders in Washington had lost sight of the values that made Reagan a Republican icon and a hero to conservatives -- a belief in limited government, low taxes and personal freedoms.

"This is not the road to national greatness, it is the road to ruin," Palin said of the growth in government spending, budget deficits, joblessness and housing foreclosures under Obama. "The federal government is spending too much, borrowing too much, growing and controlling too much," she said.

Palin said Obama had revived the era of big government, and she ridiculed the infrastructure spending and investment he outlined in his recent State of the Union speech.

"The only thing these investments will get us is a bullet train to bankruptcy," the 2008 vice presidential candidate said in a speech at the Ronald Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, California, part of two days of festivities marking the late president's 100th birthday.

Reagan served two terms as president beginning in 1981, and his belief in limited government, reduced taxes and military strength has been the dominant political doctrine of his Republican Party ever since.

His legacy gained new momentum in the last year with the growth of the conservative grassroots Tea Party movement, which has focused on a push for limited government and reduced government spending.

Like virtually all Republican Party leaders, Palin and many of the other possible Republican candidates to unseat Obama go to great lengths to stress their belief in Reagan's principle.

But Palin said the Republican search for the next

[Al B.]

Ask your distortion-laden questions to someone who gives a damn.

C ya

[EternalVigilance]

Whenever you want, I can back that up, with her own words and record, completely un-”distorted” by me in any way.

But all you can give me is your fond desires about what she may or may not do.

By January 2013 this country is going to be in extreme dire straits on every front. Warmed over Bush-McCain policies and rhetoric aren’t going to cut it any more.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

"This is not the road to national greatness, it is the road to ruin," Palin said

The LSM isn't going to like this. Can't wait to hear the wailing.

[EternalVigilance]

Gotta go for awhile. But maybe while I’m gone someone can point me to where Palin has called for a NO vote on raising the debt limit. After all, the Republicans promised to cut spending during the late campaign, and they control the purse strings. I’m sure it’s out there if she’s the “TEA Party” leader her supporters claim she is...

[truth_seeker]

“Gotta go for awhile. But maybe while I’m gone someone can point me to where Palin has called for a NO vote on raising the debt limit. After all, the Republicans promised to cut spending during the late campaign, and they control the purse strings. I’m sure it’s out there if she’s the “TEA Party” leader her supporters claim she is...”

So anti-Palin is your first priority gig?

Or are you FOR a particular, viable candidate?

Is Dr. Keyes gearing up for a run in 2012?

[Peet]

PA Engineer: Thanks for joining FR. Every village needs at least one person like you as a reminder of the extreme outliers on the left side of the gaussian curve.

I heard someone hawking that line in Rush’s show Friday. Some LIE-beral website out there is sending out those talking points and the little soldiers repeat them in lockstep...

[samtheman]

The bottom line is that no other Republican has taken on Obama attempt to backrupt us like Palin has...Mainstream Gop’rs have been nearly silent.

There are Republicans who are good on the issues but none so willing as Palin to stand up and tell the truth about what Obama is doing to this country.

[EternalVigilance]

So anti-Palin is your first priority gig?

Not even close.

Personality-based politics won't save the country.

My first priority is turning Christians and conservatives back to this country's first principles, and convincing them that the compromise of those principles is the fork in the road that leads "to ruin." Gotta backtrack to get where we should have always been. It's the only hope for America.

[PA Engineer]

I heard someone hawking that line in Rush’s show Friday. Some LIE-beral website out there is sending out those talking points and the little soldiers repeat them in lockstep...

I heard this from a leftard 22 years ago. It may have been further back, but one in particular stood out.

They have been using this meme for sometime. I don't even need my spider senses when I hear it now.

These are the worker drones of the Borg. They are incapable of rational thought. They mindlessly repeat cliff notes from some made up Balkanization studies program.

There is no point in presenting facts to them because it is beyond their cognitive abilities. They exist in a different reality constructed by psychopaths. The most humane response is a fiery ZOT to liberate them from their meaningless existence.

Just saying.

[upsdriver]

McDonnell, Virginia....

That might be a good choice. I've predicted that Palin will select Perry from Tx.

[Netizen]

Really? Then how do you explain her pro-choice for states position on abortion? It is identical to Gerald R. Ford’s, Ron Paul’s, and John McCain’s phony positions, the polar opposite of Reagan’s position and the stated position of the GOP platform since 1984.

Abortion should be states’ issue, not federal mandate
Q: Why is Roe v. Wade a bad decision?

A: I think it should be a states’ issue not a federal government-mandated, mandating yes or no on such an important issue. I’m, in that sense, a federalist, where I believe that states should have more say in the laws of their lands and individual areas. Now, foundationally, it’s no secret that I’m pro-life that I believe in a culture of life is very important for this country. Personally that’s what I would like to see further embraced by America. Source: 2008 CBS News presidential interview with Katie Couric Oct 1, 2008

Choose life, even if her own daughter were raped The candidates were pressed on their stances on abortion and were even asked what they would do if their own daughters were raped and became pregnant.

Palin said she would support abortion only if the mother’s life was in danger. When it came to her daughter, she said, “I would choose life.”

Knowles, responding to the scenario involving his daughter, said he would counsel her and talk to her, but it would be her decision. “I would love her and support her no matter what decision she made,” he said Source: Alaska 2006 Governor Debate: AP coverage of public TV debate Nov 3, 2006

If Roe v. Wade got overturned, let people decide what’s next
Q: If Roe v. Wade were overturned and states could once again prohibit abortion, in your view, to what extent should abortion be prohibited in Alaska?

A: Under this hypothetical scenario, it would not be up to the governor to unilaterally ban anything. It would be up to the people of Alaska to discuss and decide how we would like our society to reflect our values.
Source: Anchorage Daily News: 2006 gubernatorial candidate profile Oct 22, 2006

Opposes use of public funds for abortions
Q: Do you support or oppose the use of public funds for abortion (e.g., paying for abortion, promoting abortion, subsidizing organizations that provide or refer for abortion)?

A: I oppose the use of public funds for elective abortions. Source: Anchorage Daily News: 2006 gubernatorial candidate profile Oct 22, 2006

Pro-contraception, pro-woman, pro-life
What about the social issues that Alaskans, especially the party faithful who often decide primary elections, may find important? Here’s what Sarah Palin has to say about abortion.

Palin said last month that no woman should have to choose between her career, education and her child. She is pro-contraception and said she’s a member of a pro-woman but anti-abortion group called Feminists for Life. “I believe in the strength and the power of women, and the potential of every human life,” she said.
Source: Anchorage Daily News, “Little play,” by K. Hopkins Aug 6, 2006

Only exception for abortion is if mother’s life would end
Q: What are your views on abortion?

A: I am pro-life. With the exception of a doctor’s determination that the mother’s life would end if the pregnancy continued. I believe that no matter what mistakes we make as a society, we cannot condone ending another life. Source: Eagle Forum 2006 Gubernatorial Candidate Questionnaire Jul 31, 2006

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Myself, I think states rights is the way to go. We are not getting anywhere with it right now and I think a lot of states would ban it, just like they have benned gay marriage. So, she might not be so far off with that.

[EternalVigilance]

Other than the supreme right, the right to life, which other unalienable rights do you want the states to have a “right” to alienate if they want?

[EternalVigilance]

A: Under this hypothetical scenario, it would not be up to the governor to unilaterally ban anything. It would be up to the people of Alaska to discuss and decide how we would like our society to reflect our values.

What she proposes is a government of men, not of laws. She believes rights can be determined by a majority vote. She clearly does not understand the concept of natural, unalienable rights, upon which the foundations of this republic, and our claim to liberty, rest.

Thanks for bringing forth the evidence.

[TigersEye]

Like him or not he was 100% American that's for sure. Can't complain about that. ;-)

Besides, an old LedZep-Neil Young-Pink Floyd rock and roller like me thinks Bobby Darin was pretty cool. How far can I stretch before I break? LOL

[EternalVigilance]

Do you think the same way about the Right to Keep and Bear Arms?

Is it “up to the states”?

How about free speech?

Freedom of the press?

Religious liberty?

The right to petition government for the redress of grievances?

Trial by a jury of your peers?

Due process?

How about parental rights, and the right of free political association? They’re not even enumerated in the Constitution.

Have the people given them up? Not according to the Ninth and Tenth Amendments.

The idea that states can decide whether or not one class of persons should live or die is destructive of our entire form of government, because it sacrifices the cornerstone.

And besides, it’s in direct contradiction to the simple imperative demands of the Fifth and the Fourteenth Amendments, and to every stated purpose of the Constitution’s writers in the Preamble.

[TigersEye]

...while begging everyone for peace and as little noise as possible that won’t make us cranky.

Careful what you ask for. It's so quiet here sometimes I think the town has been evacuated and no one told me. You're probably thinking that sounds a little paranoid, FRiend, and I can see why you would. But when I was beating up the Census worker I grabbed his GPS doohickey and my coordinates were attached to an e-mail addressed to "USAF.bombthecrapouttathisnut@getsome.dod."

Ordinarily that wouldn't intimidate me, ya know, but I've never seen anyone hobble away laughing like that after getting clocked square in the family jewels with a piece of firewood. That sent a real chill down my spine, if ya now what I mean.

Stay thirstie, my friend.

I think my mother does have a tattoo that says "Son" now that you bring it up.
So I have that going for me.

FReegards!

[TigersEye]

It's hard to see a history when the poster's been set up the ZOT. This account has been banned or suspended.

It was there when I posted. That was my point.

[Munz]

I would love to see LTC West in there or Bachmann.
I think that they are both great

[Netizen]

What part of we area not getting anywhere with the present situation regarding abortion, do you not understand?

Are you saying that you prefer government or SC mandates over We the people voting for or against something?

What other things do you want the government or SC to mandate? Healthcare perhaps?

[EternalVigilance]

At every level, and in every branch, government's primary mandate, their sworn duty, is the protection of of the unalienable rights of the people. All of the people. I'm sorry you don't understand something so fundamental to American self-government and liberty.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men..."